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I've packaged this for Mageia Cauldron. I think it still requires changes in other packages, especially gnome-shell. Due to Mageia working on the alpha 2 release I have to wait a bit before continuing. Further, have to check if this would make it use Wayland by default or not (hope not, seems a bit early). For 3.10 it will really be a tech preview (feature regressions + performance not what it should be) so cannot have this as a default.

Ultimately though, I have to use Catalyst drivers on my machine (for Blender mostly), and I'm a happy KDE user (switch from GS 3.8 due to performance issues), so I wont be using Wayland in practice for at least another 6+ months. It's great to see things blooming with Wayland though, and I'm excited to eventually switch to it.

There was a Mutter version which worked against Wayland 0.8 or something. That version was only available on a branch in Git. This version is the first version to be released as a tarball and it is way better than that version. A lot of work went into trying to ensure you can really use it for your applications. It is still not perfect (and not expected to be), which is why the target is GNOME 3.12 for full support.

Being released as a tarball is a big thing. This allows distributions to package it, so the amount of people being able to try it out hugely increases.